George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Education Quotes, Eye Quotes

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

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